When Even the Religious Right Give Up

Stories of failure don’t usually excite me, as I’m not a schadenfreude kind of guy…

But this interesting commentary from Italy’s La Repubblica, translated on Watching America.com tells of two mutually supporting failures that offer exciting prospects.

The failures? Bush’s failure to deliver on a religious agenda, and the religious right’s failure to choose someone who could.

According to the article, the base that would die for its cause – at least that part of the base that learns its doctrine at Bob Jones University – has decided that politics is a lost cause, and are thinking they might try their hand again at communicating their beliefs to individuals, rather than attempting to rewrite the rules of a nation.

“Not Fox, CNN, nor even the candidates are coming here [Bob Jones University] anymore; no one here believes any longer in a redemption that must pass through Washington.”

Even the candidate who has been billed as the man most evangelical is voicing the exasperation,

“It is useless to deceive yourselves. A President is not equipped to transform the U.S. into a Christian nation.”

Accordingly, the people of Bob Jones are going to sit on the bench for this election:

the people of Bob Jones University are now convinced that all politicians are the same and that time would be better spent committing oneself towards changing the individuals that make up society and towards continuing to train the thousands of pastors of the Church of America.

This is getting radical: if the religious right keeps going on like this, they may let America become a place rampant with that favorite Christian value – free will for each individual. Hallelujah!

Read “When Even the Religious Right Give Up” here on WatchingAmerica.com